Hap-pea Merry Little Christmas!

Hello, Tallie here. The big day is almost here so I thought I'd end this year with a non-traditional punny Christmas card design I sent to some of my closest friends this year. It's a great one for using non-holiday themed stamps in a festive design. I used the Lawn Fawn Be Hap-pea stamp set, Lawn Fawn Say What? Christmas Critters stamp set and some stitched star dies (these or these would be good).

As usual, I started out by stamping the peas and their pod from the Lawn Fawn Be Hap-pea stamp set in some MFT Extreme Black Ink onto some blending cardstock. I also stamped out some of the small hats from the Lawn Fawn Yeti or Not set to dress up the peas. I used some bright greens and reds to colour in the images and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

On a top-folding A6 card base I blended on some Distress Oxide Ink in Broken China, focusing most of the ink in the centre of the card. On another panel, I blended on some Distress Inks in Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey and Squeezed Lemonade and die cut with a stitched star die. With a gold gel pen, I added some dot detail to the star and adhered it centrally to the card base.

Some foam tape helped pop the peas and their pod up onto the star. For the sentiment, I stamped out the 'hap-pea' sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Be Hap-pea stamp set and the 'merry little christmas' from the Lawn Fawn Say What? Christmas Critters stamp set in some Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink. I prefer to stamp bright colours in Oxide ink as they don't stain the stamps like dye inks do in the brighter colours. I adhered the sentiments underneath the peas.

I made two different designs with the two different pod stamps from the Lawn Fawn Be Hap-pea stamp set. A few final touches with a white pen finish it off.

Thanks for reading and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a wonderfully successful new year 2020!

Tallie

 

Hap-pea Birthday!

Oh my Goodness!! How cute are the Lawn Fawn peas??

I'm so glad they are back in stock so I can share this card I made for our nephew...

It's quite a simple design, I just swapped out the sentiment in the stamp set for die cuts 

using Finley's ABC's and used the English Wall Stencil as a backdrop for a more 

urban feel so it would work as a guys card.

I blended green ink onto the centre of my card base and then blended the same colour 

through the stencil for a tone on tone brick pattern.The streamers and confetti are from

 the Cheeky Birthday set by Hero Arts ... another fab small set which has usable 

sentiments as well as these great background fillers

To make the peas I used the solid shape and inked it using two shades of green inks then 

used the outline stamps and faces to give them character. I die cut the letters from card 

and patterned paper and used the coordinating dies to cut the peas out too, then just arranged 

them on my wall backdrop before adhering them down. What a fun card 😊

  

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x